Galerie Mathias Güntner (Hamburg/Berlin), based in Hamburg since 2004, opened a second gallery location in Berlin in summer 2020. It represents both established and young, up-and-coming artists and is committed to a curatorial approach.
Mathias Güntner’s curatorial work began in 2001 with a project space in the Falckenberg Collection, followed from 2002 by more extensive exhibition projects in Kaispeicher A (the basement of today’s Elbphilharmonie) and in the Falckenberg Collection. From 2003 – 2005 Güntner managed the Kunstverein Harburger Bahnhof, and with the move to the Fleetinsel Hamburg in 2004 he began his professional gallery work.
Today, the gallery represents international artists and maintains diverse collaborations with authors, curators and museums. Time and again, it also supports projects in public spaces that do not aim to have a commercial impact, but instead focus on socio-political issues, for example by Boran Burchhardt or Jan Köchermann.
In recent years, the gallery has expanded its activities to include a generation of artists who began their careers in the 1960s, such as Hartmut Böhm, Alfons Lachauer, Ewa Partum and Endre Tót. Connections between Post-Minimal Art and its conceptual historical roots in the 1960s also became central.
Under the title “Guest Performance”, the gallery also pursues various formats of collaboration, including with guest curators and guest artists such as Burkhard Brunn, Charlotte Posenenske, Monika Bonvicini (…). The publication series “Let’s talk about” (2012-2015), in which artists talk about their work at the kitchen table, seeks a more personal expression of thinking about art.
Galerie Mathias Güntner is regularly represented at national and international art fairs.